From the pack of smokes sold at the gas station to the neighborhood clinic offering immunizations, lawmakers’ efforts to balance the state budget could touch Coloradans’ everyday lives in myriad ways.

Lawmakers last week approved the bill authorizing the $17.9 billion spending plan for the next budget year, which begins in July. But there are still several pieces of legislation that must be passed if the budget is to be fully balanced.

A bill that would transfer $174.3 million from several dozen pots of money funded by fees or specific revenue streams, such as severance taxes, to the state’s general fund still must pass.

The balancing plan also includes a bill that would remove the sales-tax exemption for cigarettes, allowing the state to impose its 2.93 percent sales tax and generating some $30 million per year in revenue. That would be in addition to the state’s excise tax of 84 cents per pack on cigarettes.

“We haven’t really heard much opposition on it so far,” said Rep. Jack Pommer, D-Boulder, a member of the Joint Budget Committee.

He said tobacco lobbyists, however, have urged lawmakers to lift the sales-tax exemption for just five years.

Another budget-balancing proposal would take $15 million from federally qualified health clinics, which serve the urban poor and rural areas.

Some Democrats have blanched at this idea and are looking for ways to reduce the cut, if not eliminate it.

Lawmakers had been considering legislation to remove the sales-tax exemption on food bought from vending machines, but one Denver business owner helped change their minds.

“If this passes, there’s a good possibility we will go out of business,” said Lou Langdon, president of G&S Vending, which employs 15 people in the Denver area who operate about 1,000 vending machines.

Though legislative analysts have estimated the state could collect up to $7.7 million a year from vending machine sales taxes, industry representatives say their figures show sales wouldn’t generate more than $2.3 million in tax revenue.

Langdon said vending machine companies typically sign long-term contracts with building owners that lock in the prices of food items in the machines. He said vending companies already operate on slim margins and can’t just raise prices to make up the difference.

And besides, Langdon said, it’s not fair. The same food items sold at convenience and grocery stores aren’t taxed.

“If they want to tax M&Ms, tax all M&Ms, don’t just tax me,” he said.

The arguments worked on Pommer and Rep. Mark Ferrandino, D-Denver, who co-sponsored the bill to remove the exemption.

Ferrandino said the pair were planning to kill the legislation.

“We just felt this wasn’t the right way to balance the budget,” Ferrandino said.

But other groups haven’t been so lucky.

Seniors, for example, will lose a property-tax break offered to people 65 and older who have lived in their house for at least 10 years. The break exempts from taxes 50 percent of the first $200,000 of the actual value of eligible homes.

Colorado voters approved the tax break in 2000, but lawmakers in the last recession exercised their option to zero out the tax break for three years. This time, lawmakers are only removing the tax break for one year, saving the state $90 million.

“We’re disappointed that it’s been taken away,” said Fern Osborn, vice president of the Colorado Senior Lobby. “There’s an awful lot of seniors in this state. Some of them will lose their homes.”

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